Flyer for spinning machines



April 7, 1936. H. c. HERR 2,036,697

FLYER FOR SPINNING MACHINES Filed Dec. 3, 1934 7 45.44 (".Wvm. 15 1/ W 75 I Patented Apr. 7, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Henry C. Herr, Buffalo, N. Y., assignor to Herr Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Application December 3, 1934, Serial No. 755,706

3 Claims.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the flyers used in connection with spinning machines.

The principal object of the invention is the 5 provision of a balanced flyer having simple and inexpensive means for counter-balancing the weight as well as the centrifugal force of the flyer wire and wherein the weight-balancing element is an integral and unitary part of the flyer 1 wire.

Another object is the provision of a flyer of this character which is so designed and constructed as to be easily applied to the flyer-body or hub.

In the accompanying drawing:--

Figure 1 is a fragmentary side elevation of a bobbin and spindle showing the improved flyer operatively associated therewith. Figure 2 is a detached perspective view of the balanced flyer. Figure 3 is a horizontal section taken in the 20 plane of line 33, Figure 1. Figure 4 is a cross section taken in the plane of line 44, Figure 3.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

By way of example, my balanced flyer has been 25 shown in connection with a tapered spindle ll] of usual form on which the bobbin l I is mounted. The flyer, which is detachably mounted on the spindle, is shown as consisting of a circular body or hub member I 2 made of wood or other suitable 30 material and having a central spindle-engaging opening l3.

Projecting radially from one side of the flyer body is a flyer wire l4 having a thread-engaging eye l5 and projecting from the diametrically op- 35 posite side thereof is a balancing element I 6 to counter-balance the weight of the flyer wire as well as the centrifugal force developed by it when in motion. By preference, the flyer wire and the balancing element are formed or shaped from a 40 single piece of wire which is provided substantially centrally thereof or between the opposing inner ends of said flyer wire and said balancing element with an attaching portion IT. This attaching portion is preferably semi-circular in 45 shape and is adapted to be fitted about a reduced neck or in an annular groove [8 formed in the flyer body l2 to be held thereby against vertical displacement. Adjacent its ends, the

arcuate attaching portion passes externally around anchoring pins l9 fitted in the flyer body and intersecting its groove l8, whereby the unitary fiyer wire and balancing element are effectually held against lateral displacement, as 5 Well as against turning relatively to the flyer body.

The balancing element I6 is shown as substantially bail or loop-shaped, the arm portion 20 thereof having its free inner end bent around 10 the adjoining anchoring pin l9, as seen in Figure 3, and disposed over the contiguous top side of the attaching portion I1.

I claim as my inventionz- 1. A flyer, comprising a body, and a combined one piece flyer wire and balancing element projecting from opposite sides of said body and in cluding an intermediate attaching portion engageable with the body, the balancing element being substantially triangular in shape with its leg portions intersecting adjacent said attaching portion.

2. A flyer, comprising a body having an annular groove therein and anchoring pins intersecting the same at substantially diametrically opposite sides thereof, and a combined one piece flyer wire and balancing element projecting from opposite sides of said body and including a substantially arcuate attaching portion between the opposing ends of said flyer wire and balancing 3O element for engagement with said body-groove, said arcuate portion extending at its ends about said anchoring pins and said balancing element being bent upon itself into substantially bail shape and having its free end disposed in coupling engagement with the adjoining anchoring 13111.

3. An article of manufacture made from a single piece of wire and including a flyer wire at one side of its center, an element bent upon itself into substantially bail-shape form for counterbalancing the weight of the flyer-wire at the opposite side of such center, and an arcuate attaching portion in the plane of the bail-shape element and disposed between the opposing inner ends of said flyer wire and said counter-balancing element.

HENRY C. HERB. 

